DRC 3.0 Update - Build 3.18 is Available

 I just released the latest update to Digital Rockhound's Companion Version 3.18

 Bug Fix:
   -  Specimen / Fossil not added to labelqueue if ID_text is not a number
   - Specimen - Cannot remove MineID
 
 Enhancement:
   - Mineral specimen: Allow Specimen_ID to be changed.  This is initially an auto-number.

  This update also rolls out DRC 3.0 to anyone using DRC version 2.0 as a free update.

  

  You can download the using DRC 3.0 if you have version 3.0.16 or higher, otherwise, you must download it manually.   Download 

Fossil collecting at Hueston Woods, Ohio

At the end of June, I visited Hueston Woods state park and went fossil collecting. The first time I visited the park was 30 years ago when I was in high school. My memory of the collecting areas were vague as well as the park amendities. The park is located near Miami University of Ohio near Oxford, Ohio. A very nice little college town. The fossil collecting was very good, although I did not find any geodizd brachiopods with calcite I had collected 30 years ago. There were a few locations north of Oxford outside the park which I did not get to visit. There is brachipod thick horizon in the limestone which probably has these geodized brachs. After 30 years, this is still a great place to collect fossils. Great specimens can still be found! Links: http://visithw.com/things-to-do/fossil-hunting

DRC 3.0 Update - Build 3.17 is Available

  I just released the latest update to Digital Rockhound's Companion Version 3.17

 Bug Fix:
   Missing file DRCSearch.dll in update installer and full installer (from DVD)
   You get a error window when attempting to search your collection.

  This update also rolls out DRC 3.0 to anyone using DRC version 2.0 as a free update.

  

  You can download the using DRC 3.0 if you have version 3.0.16 or higher, otherwise, you must download it manually.   Download DRC_Update.exe

DRC 3.0 Update - Build 3.16 is Available

  I just released the latest update to Digital Rockhound's Companion Version 3.16

 Bug Fix:

• DRC updates in DRC.exe is working again!
• Added Run as Administrator for Windows 7 and Windows 8 users

  This update also rolls out DRC 3.0 to anyone using DRC version 2.00 as a free update.

  

  You can download the using DRC 3.0 if you have version 3.0.16 or higher, otherwise, you must download it manually.   Download DRC_Update.exe

BTW, DRC will not run on Windows Touch Tables using WinRT.  WinRT is a variation of Windows 8 but is not backwards compatible with Windows 7.

For Windows 8 / Windows 8.1

After you download DRC_Update.exe to your Windows 8 / Windows 8.1 workstation, you map have Windows SmartScreen appear and warn you about the file.

Click more info

Click run anyway

You will also get a Windows prompt, that DRC_UPDATE.exe is attempting to update your system, click Yes to allow it.

Geodes in Indiana

UPDATE: Recently visited area north of Bloomington, Inidana.
See: https://digitalrockhound.blogspot.com/2019/06/geode-hunting-near-bloomington-indiana.html

Map showing counties where geodes can be found in Indiana. Geodes can be found from in the southern third of the state. Popular counties to find geodes include Brown, Monroe, Morgan, Lawrence and Washington. and scattered on the ground.

(Map Generated by DRC 3.0)
Read more :

• http://www.ehow.com/info_8158449_geodes-indiana.html 
• http://indianastatemuseum.wordpress.com/2009/01/23/the-secret-of-geodes/ 
• http://www.gatorgirlrocks.com/state-by-state/indiana.html 

Geodes
 Bedford, Indiana Geodes containing barite, calcite, dolomite, marcasite, millerite, pyrite, quartz, & sphalerite occur in a layer of limestone exposed by the road-cut along State Route 37, approximately 10.5 miles north of Bedford (just south of the Monroe Lake exit).

• From http://igs.indiana.edu/ReferenceDocs/GeoNotes/GeoNotes_Geodes.pdf 

In south-central Indiana geodes can be found in the walls of road cuts and other exposures of rocks of the Harrodsburg Limestone and Ramp Creek Formation. For several miles on either side of this outcrop area, geodes are abundant along streams